http://media.blubrry.com/eatthebankers/p/content.blubrry.com/eatthebankers/SINCLAIR_NOE-SEG_1-02-26-2016.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 13:16 — 6.1MB)Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Android | RSSFinancial Review by Sinclair Noe for 02-26-2016 DOW – 57 = 16,639 SPX – 3 = 1948 NAS + 8 = 4590 10 Y + .07 = 1.76 OIL – .29 = 32.79 GOLD – 10.90 = 1222.80 For the week, the Dow Industrials added 1.5%, the S&P 500 gained 2%, the Nasdaq was up 1.9%. The S&P 500 has rallied about 6.5 percent since reaching a 22-month low on Feb. 11, it remains lower by more than 4.5 percent for the year. The dollar strengthened for a third day versus the yen, while yields on 10-year Treasury notes topped 1.75 percent. Oil capped the biggest weekly gain since August, with a 10% move. China’s central bank said it sees room for monetary easing. Chinese markets were up over 1% after a big 6% drop Thursday. The MSCI All-Country World Index rose 0.1 percent, while the Stoxx Europe 600 Index rose 1.5 percent. Gold posted a consecutive weekly drop for the first time this year. Finance ministers and central bank governors from the world’s leading economies have gathered in Shanghai to discuss a response to the global economic landscape. Among the many issues facing them is the plunge in commodity prices, market volatility, exchange rates and the slowdown of China’s economy. G20 participants will try to agree on a coordinated stimulus program that could stop a global slowdown from turning into something worse. …

Helicopter Money by Sinclair Noe DOW – 9 = 13,973SPX + 0.98 = 1521NAS + 1 = 319810 YR YLD – .03 = 1.99%OIL + .36 = 97.37GOLD – 7.20 = 1636.40SILV – . 33 = 30.55 A reminder I will be speaking at the 2013 Wealth Protection Conference April 5th. To register or for more information, please visit: www.buysilvernow.com or click here. Happy Valentine’s Day. The G-20 meets this weekend. Currency devaluation will be a major topic. There is a race to devalue currencies, with the payoff being more exports for the winning or losing country. The winner in the race to the bottom looks to be the UK; over the past five years, the pound sterling is the weakest major currency. London’s role as a financial center made in vulnerable to the banking problems, and then the government imposed austerity measures, making a bad situation far worse. Since the end of last year the pound has weakened dramatically against all other major currencies, apart from the yen. The British and Japanese currencies seem to be falling for similar reasons. Those countries’ economies have experienced almost no growth since 2009, and their governments are becoming increasingly desperate to end this long-term stagnation. This past week, saw some important speeches that were largely overshadowed here in the US by the State of the Union address. The Bank of Japan’s Shinzo Abe announced monetary expansion should directly finance record breaking public investment programs. The other big speech came from Adair Turner, …